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"You Should Be Dancing" is a single by the Bee Gees, from the album, Children of the World, in 1976. The single hit number one for one week on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number one for seven weeks on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, and in July the same year, reached number five on the UK Singles Chart.^[1] The song also peaked at number four on the Billboard R&B chart. It was this song that first launched the Bee Gees into disco stardom, although rock-oriented drums and guitars can be heard in the background. It was also the only track from the group to top the dance chart.

The song was their third Billboard Hot 100 number-one and their sixth number-one in Canada. It ended up the year as the #31 song of the year on the Hot 100.^[2] It also hit number four in Ireland. In Australia, where the brothers spent a number of years in their youth, it managed only to nick the top 20.

"You Should Be Dancing" is known today as the first chart-topper in which Barry Gibb uses his now-trademark falsetto (he had previously used it on the top-10 "Nights on Broadway" and on "Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)"). The song was prominently featured in the movie Saturday Night Fever and appears on its soundtrack album.

Live performances of "You Should Be Dancing" during the 1979 Spirits Having Flown tour featured the Bee Gees' younger sibling, Andy Gibb, on backing vocals.

This song and the scene from the movie containing the song were seen and heard in the film Short Circuit.

The Boston Celtics also play this song when they are about to win a basketball game accompanied by the ever popular "Dancing Gino" video from the television show American Bandstand.

1 Chart performance
2 Cover versions
- 2.1 Blockster
3 See also
4 References

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
United States	1
Canada	1
Brazil	2
Ireland	4
United Kingdom	5
Italy	7
Sweden	8
New Zealand	10
Norway	11
Belgium	12
Spain	15
Germany	16
Netherlands	17
Australia	20
France	24

Cover versions

Blockster

Blockster released a cover "You Should Be...", which reached number three in the UK chart in January 1999.^[3]

Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol, performed the song on the show on May 8, 2007. His studio version was later released on the American Idol official website and on American Idol Season 6: The Collector's Edition, a compilation of studio versions of songs performed by Idol finalists.

Preceded by "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee	Billboard Hot 100 number-one single September 4, 1976	Succeeded by "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" by KC and the Sunshine Band
Preceded by "The Best Disco in Town" by The Ritchie Family	Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single August 14, 1976 – September 25, 1976	Succeeded by "Cherchez La Femme" / "Sour and Sweet" / "I'll Play the Fool" by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

References

^ Roberts, David. Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums. Guinness World Records Ltd 17th edition (2004), p. 52 ISBN 0851121993
^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=411&cfgn=Year-end+Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3077237&cdi=9014406&cid=12%2F31%2F1976
^ Roberts, David. Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums. Guinness World Records Ltd 17th edition (2004), p. 66 ISBN 0851121993

The Bee Gees

Barry Gibb · Robin Gibb · Maurice Gibb
Colin Petersen · Vince Melouney

Studio albums

1960s	The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs (1965) · Spicks and Specks (1966) · Bee Gees' 1st (1967) · Horizontal (1968) · Idea (1968) · Odessa (1969)

1970s	Cucumber Castle (1970) · 2 Years On (1970) · Trafalgar (1971) · To Whom It May Concern (1972) · Life in a Tin Can (1973) · Mr. Natural (1974) · Main Course (1975) · Children of the World (1976) · Spirits Having Flown (1979)

1980s	Living Eyes (1981) · E.S.P. (1987) · One (1989)

1990s	High Civilization (1991) · Size Isn't Everything (1993) · Still Waters (1997)

2000s	This Is Where I Came In (2001)

Singles (US and UK)

1960s	"New York Mining Disaster 1941" (1967) · "To Love Somebody" (1967) · "Holiday" (1967) · "Massachusetts" (1967) · "World" (1967) · "Words" (1968) · "Jumbo" (1968) · "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" (1968) · "I Started a Joke" (1968) · "First Of May" (1969) · "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" (1969) · "Don't Forget to Remember" (1969)

1970s	"If I Only Had My Mind on Something Else" (1970) · "I.O.I.O." (1970) · "Lonely Days" (1970) · "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" (1971) · "Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself" (1971) · "My World" (1972) · "Run To Me" (1972) · "Alive" (1972) · "Saw a New Morning" (1973) · "Wouldn't I Be Someone" (1973) · "Mr. Natural" (1974) · "Throw a Penny" (1974) · "Charade" · "Jive Talkin'" (1975) · "Nights on Broadway" (1975) · "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" (1976) · "You Should Be Dancing" (1976) · "Love So Right" (1976) · "Boogie Child" (1977) · "Edge of the Universe" (1977) · "How Deep is Your Love?" (1977) · "Stayin' Alive" (1977) · "Night Fever" (1978) · "Too Much Heaven" (1978) · "Tragedy" (1979) · "Love You Inside Out" (1979) · "Spirits (Having Flown)" (1979)

1980s	"He's a Liar" (1981) · "Living Eyes" (1981) · "The Woman in You" (1983) · "Someone Belonging To Someone" (1983) · "You Win Again" (1987) · "E.S.P." (1987) · "Crazy For Your Love" (1988) · "Ordinary Lives" (1989) · "One" (1989)

1990s	"Bodyguard" (1990) · "Secret Love" (1991) · "When He's Gone" (1991) · "Paying The Price Of Love" (1993) · "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1993) · "How to Fall in Love, Part 1" (1994) · "Alone" (1997) · "I Could Not Love You More" (1997) · "Still Waters (Run Deep)" (1997) · "Immortality" (1998)

2000s	"This Is Where I Came In" (2001)

Soundtracks

Melody (1971) · Saturday Night Fever (1977) · Staying Alive (1983)

Live albums

Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live (1977) · One Night Only (1998)

Compilation albums

Best of Bee Gees (1969) · Best of Bee Gees, Volume 2 (1973) · Bee Gees Gold (1976) · Bee Gees Greatest (1979) · The Very Best of the Bee Gees (1990) · Their Greatest Hits: The Record (2001) · Number Ones (2004) · Love Songs (2005) · The Ultimate Bee Gees (2009)

Gibb Productions

Andy Gibb's "Flowing Rivers" (1977), "Shadow Dancing" (1978) & "After Dark" (1980) · Jimmy Ruffin's "Sunrise" (1980) · Barbra Streisand's "Guilty" (1980) · Dionne Warwick's "Heartbreaker" (1982) · Kenny Rogers' "Eyes That See in the Dark" (1983) · Diana Ross' "Eaten Alive" (1985) · Carola's "Runaway" (1986)

See also: Bee Gees discography

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You Should Be Dancing

Contents

Chart performance

Cover versions

Blockster

See also

References